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Monday, April 3, 2017

Snacks: What do people enjoy?

Many people enjoy snacks between meals, either while at work or after school when they return home. However, the snacks people each can vary widely from culture to culture or family to family. While some people think of potato chips as a snack, I really enjoyed Edamae, or boiled soybeans while I was in Japan. Basically, you boil the beans with the shell in salt and then serve. At that point, you just remove the pod, or outside shell, and enjoy. So, what about you? Share any unique or interesting snacks that people eat where you live. Randall

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In Taiwan, there are all kind of street vendors server delicious food as snack. The one I love most is called "Lu-Way." They boil food such as chicken legs, tofu, vegetables with a mixed soup which contains several seasoning to make it smelling good. Every vendors have their secrete recipes for the soup. It's quite popular in Taiwan.

I'm really glad to hear you like Japanese edamame, Randall, because I'm Japanese. I usually have edamame with beer. That combination is nice! When I lived in the U.S. until last summer, I liked corn chips and chocolate covered dry fruits. I still miss them! Now I sometimes have "Okaki" which is a kind of rice crackers. On around New year's day we have "Omochi" which made from sticky rice. We have it with soysauce and seaweed or soy powder and sugar. I'm looking forward it!

In Taiwan, one of famous snacks is the red bean cake which is a crispy brown shelf with mashed sweet red bean. Also, many Taiwanese including me like stinky Tofu as a snack. Unfortunately, lots of Westerns don't enjoy sweet red bean and stinky tofu. They think red bean shouldn't be cooked into sweet one. Also, they are confused about why people can eat stinky food. Actually, you won't smell the odor while you eating; I especially love the preserved vegetables as the side dish with stinky tofu. Eating the tofu with the sour and sweet preserved vegetable is one of the pleasures in the lifetime.

The night markets of Taiwan are very famous. In night markets, there are many foods you can eat as snacks, such as fried chicken, salt-soaked chicken, sausage, and other foods. All of them are very delicous and not expensive. If you go to Taiwan for tourism someday, you can't miss it.

YOU know，there are lots of snacks in china.For Shanghai,the famouse snack must be XiaoLong.Most tourists visited here will taste it in YUYUAN.But for me,my favorite snack is Chou tofu(I prefer using this word than "stinky tofu").Especially within vendor's special sauce.Sweet and acid.En!MEIWEI!!

Usually I don’t eat snacks between meals, either while at work or back home because I don’t like brush my teeth many times. But if I have to work extra hours I usually eat a small sandwich or a piece of cake.

In my opinion,children should eat fruit and vegetables. The kids would be healthy. If the parents eat healthy food, the children will eat healthy food too because the kids will follow their example.Most kids in Qatar like chocolate for snacks but this is unhealthy food.My favourite snack is fruit salad because there are many kinds of fruit and they contain vitamins.

Usually I don’t eat snacks between meals, either while at work or back home because I don’t like brush my teeth many times. But if I have to work extra hours I usually eat a small sandwich or a piece of cake.

As a snacks I like pizza very much..specially spinach pizza with lots of cheese..In india street vendors serve spinach pizza with mushroom and its very tasty..Apart from this I also love india snacks too like dosa(rice tortilla)with lots of spices..idly (rice pancake)etc..I know all of this are not healthy But I love to eat..Because of eating snacks too much I am put on weight..:-(

I'm from Taiwan and Taiwanese snacks are delicious and very cheap!!! I love tofu pudding.It's kind of a bowl with some broken tofu in water. It's has sweet and salty ones. It's tasty and awesome! I haven't eaten it since I came to America.Now I miss it very much.

Although the press says that dieters who eat mid-morning snacks lose less weight, the fact is that this could be because they choose the wrong snack, says Roberta Re, PhD, researcher of nutrition in Leatherhead Food Research.

Re and his colleagues found that when people ate 1 1/2 serving of almonds (45 grams) around 11am, were less hungry at lunch and dinner, and consumed fewer calories throughout the day than those who did not eat almonds.

What is the recommended for a mid-morning snack quantity? About 45 grams or about 35 almonds.

We are a fifth grade class in Finland, and we like multiple snacks. We like fruit like watermelon, mango and bananas. We like bread with Nutella (a chocolate and hazelnut spread). Our unhealthy snacks are particularly the same as unhealthy foods everywhere else. In Finland we have really healthy foods. At Easter we eat mämmi (a brown rye porridge) as a snack. We also like Carelian pies (a pastry that has rice, potato, or carrot inside it) with egg butter.

Good morning, Randall!I'm from Belarus and usually I eat fruits or sandwiches for snack. An apple or banana is , of course, more healthy than sandwich with ham or sausage but it' s sooo tasty! I also eat salads between meals, for example, vegetable with tomatoes, cucumbers, onion and sour cream. We practically have no street food and a lot of people eat fast food as a snack. It can be pizza, french fries, burgers.

in Vietnammese, we have many things to eat as a snack. Sometimes, we eat fruit for a snack. Another time, we eat cookie for a snack. I know cookie is not good for my health. But I don't care when it so sweet. I can lay all day, watch TV, eat the snack.